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Young lady smiles and enjoys a coke before going to prom, circa mid 1950s, kodachrome shot.

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2013: Anti-Capitalism Poster depicting Dinosaurs Eating a CEO, by John Brosio.

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A German WWII prisoner is reunited with his 12-year-old daughter.The child had not seen her father since she was one year old, 1956. Photograph by Helmuth Pirath

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rare photo of a Palestinian policeman searching a Jew at the Jaffa Gate in 1929.

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My grandmother (18 y/o) with my mom in 1959

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JFK poses his lifelong friend Lem Billings, 1933.

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Let them die in the streets USA, 1990

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Teaching Papuans How To Use Condoms. Papua New Guinea, 1990.

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My Dad recently passed away and my Aunt shared with me this Groovy photo of my Dad playing drums in the 1960’s

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Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.

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Princess Grace of Monaco visiting JFK at the White House, 1961.

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Actor Klaus Kinski holding a machete to director Werner Herzog’s throat during the filming of Cobra Verde. Their relationship was complicated. (1987)(890x580)

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